hello
this is the first time I write here from you, I have a problem in shutting down and restarting gentoo.
when I go to shut down or restart or ctrl + alt + F1 turns off the monitor and keyboard freezes
my video card sapphire hd 7850. I'm using xfce4 as desktop

does this happen when you reboot when X is not running, too? i strongly suspect the proprietary ati-driver. if you can do w/out it, best get rid of it asap if you really need it, i fear there is not much you can about that.
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should I install the drivers open? xf86-video-ati ,replace them with ati-drivers
the thing me and strange, because a month ago I bought a new PC, and I installed gentoo with kde-4.9 64-bit, and it worked perfectly the same video card. I had to format gentoo to install windows 7 for games
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as i said, except for 3d-performance the free drivers are much more stable and compatible (and generally much better, i think) the the closed-source drivers. if you decide to replace them, don't forget that there are also some kernel-settings that have to changed (not only the X-drivers). as a benefit you get KMS :wink:
older games will run quite well with these drivers (esp OpenGL), but young ones most likely won't.

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because a month ago I bought a new PC, and I installed gentoo with kde-4.9 64-bit, and it worked perfectly the same video card.

things may change quickly, esp. if you are on ~ARCH. if you have backups of /etc, kernel-config and maybe world you might get it to run again quite easily IF you really need/want it.
GOOD LUCK!_________________DUMM KLICKT GUT.

Hate to jump in on a thread, but I am having the same exact issue, and was wondering what you did exactly, did you end up switching to the kernel driver for this card? I would like to use the ati-drivers, but this whole, not being able to drop to a console, or reboot properly thing is driving me nuts. I have the 7970.
Thanks!_________________MAO

hello
Now I have temporarily stopped with open drivers
and now the pc restarts and turns off but I have no 3D acceleration http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fglrx
I think we should install a version of ati-drivers less rencente 12.6 and xorg-server 12.12

as I said a month ago I installed a version of ati-drivers and xorg-server oldest and everything worked perfectly